In article <5uj321F1i3jqiU1@mid.individual.net>, Hugh Watkins <hugh.watkins@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don't think Mac genealogy software is worth bothering with > after wasting about two hundred dollars in a MAc Store > > with an Intel Mac I run good old FTM 16 on WinXP sp2 on PAralles 3.0 on > Mac OS 10.4.1110.5.* OS intel macs are all dual boot if you pruchase an > OEM MS os and install it > > Hugh W I'm really curious...if you're so anti-Mac, why do you have one? I can't recall the last time you did *not* chime on any discussion of Mac genealogy software with your advice to run Windows on that Mac and use some other software. -- Steve W. Jackson Montgomery, Alabama

Steve W. Jackson wrote: > In article <5uj321F1i3jqiU1@mid.individual.net>, > Hugh Watkins <hugh.watkins@gmail.com> wrote: >> I don't think Mac genealogy software is worth bothering with >> after wasting about two hundred dollars in a MAc Store >> >> with an Intel Mac I run good old FTM 16 on WinXP sp2 on PAralles 3.0 on >> Mac OS 10.4.1110.5.* OS intel macs are all dual boot if you pruchase an >> OEM MS os and install it >> >> Hugh W > > I'm really curious...if you're so anti-Mac, why do you have one? I > can't recall the last time you did *not* chime on any discussion of Mac > genealogy software with your advice to run Windows on that Mac and use > some other software. I have used macs since 1994 but the genealogy software I have seen is lousy FTM 16 has a better GUI in fact eg you can use the trees to navigate and double click to edit and individual or click a button to edit the equivalent of a family group sheet and a back error like a web browser to see previous views A lot of keyboard shortcuts too the ones I use most are not in FTM 2008 - yet all my blogging, flickr.com , mail, usenet is done on the mac side PC AOL 9.* is better than the Mac version and MS IE 7 is not availabel for the MAc but an esential tool for webmasters and a defacto standard for much online banking Java apps ae getting better at being OS agnostic but there are more transcription utlities for the PC An intel Mac is heaven for Unix people because they have the command line interface available too for me Intel Mac rule I am writing this in SeaMonkey on my friends amchine:- Systemversion: Mac OS X 10.4.11 (8S165) Kernel-version: Darwin 8.11.0 Computernavn: iMac G5 Model: PowerMac8,2 CPU-type: PowerPC G5 (3.0) because I am cat sitting for a month in another appartment I also a heavy google apps user in Firefox on the Mac I don't like the apple mouse 3 button plus wheel MS m ouse is much better the Mac OS supports CTRL + wheel forward as a zoom in function and Windows keboad have the alt grod key the Windows key is also the Apple key I find the grey on white of the apple keyboard tiring for old eyes I should have got big white letters on black Hugh W which is greta for difficult hand writng in images like the US censu